British upper house election, 1842

The British upper house election, 1842 was held on 1 January 1842 when new peers were elected to the British House of Lords by the voting population. The Conservative Party again lost a small number of seats to the Tory Party and the Whigs, with the Tories gaining more seats than the Whigs; however, the Whigs remained the second-largest party in the country, behind the declining Conservatives.